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Sleep well Tim and Aimee. 2004, On camera interview: Grizzly Man Movie. Am I the only one who thinks releasing the tape would probably help discourage other lunatics? (Liggett 2003) if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'yellowstone_bearman_com-banner-1','ezslot_13',114,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-yellowstone_bearman_com-banner-1-0'); Amie Huguenard apparently did not share the same concern. 2004, On camera dialog: Grizzly Man Movie. Greatings from Dsseldorf. Be aware and be smart. Even the most domesticated animals kill every year yet we still keep dogs in our homes as pets . For 13 years, Timothy Treadwell camped in several Alaskan parks but Katmai National Park was a favorite, crawling and walking up close to bears and filming them. Two tents were discovered, one for gear and the main tent used for sleeping. Bears die all the time, they fight, they starve, they get diseases and other injuries, they die. It's very clear in his videos he was screaming out to be loved. I am SO glad I found this article again, so many years later! The berry crop was also reported poor by U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Thank you for putting this story up with your own insightful input.If you see a black mama bear racing towards you and your heart beat doesn't change, you are an abnormal human being.I you glanced around and saw a grizzly bear at a distance and your heart does not stop for a moment, you are a very abnormal human being.If additionally, you attempted to go and manipulate the behaviour of those wild animals in order to have them coexist with you, you must be crazily delusional.Many delusional people go in life not having their delusion proven to them. He left his parents nearly nothing, which also could indicate his distant relationship with both of them. I think this would clear a lot of his mental instability. Many people trash Timothy, but he did things for 13 years, up close and personal,,but, the law of averages catches up to you..Why he didn't use a simple battery Bear cage around his tent or especially 'Counter Assault Bear Spray' I will never understand..Some of these ass-whips say he deserved it,,Nobody deserves to be eaten alive,, even when he was wrong. A large male grizzly (tagged Bear 141) protecting the campsite was killed by park rangers during their attempt to retrieve the bodies. Ranger Dalrymple was slightly ahead of Gilliland when Gilliland suddenly yells, Bear! I LOVE ?? Willy then states that he turned around and headed back down the path through the thick alders at a pretty good clip and just as he gets to the plane, he turns and spots a pretty nasty looking bear that he had seen on earlier flights, sneaking slowly down the trail with its head down. I got curious when I came across Tim and Amies tragic story. But if you truly think that that is his main diagnosis, you need to turn that degree back in. Seen a lot of Tim bashing here. Willy Fulton identified this bear as #141, the Unless this is all the info you have of course. I never arrested him for drunk driving.We all do stupid things at times. Rangers Ellis and Dalrymple then hike back down the path to retrieve cameras from the plane. Your article is absolutely amazing, youshow both sides of thought without being bias. Have had zero use for coyotes ever since (the occasional now and again reports of one trying to wander off with someone's child hasn't helped). Anything that made it past that wild hell would have to have been incredibly tough.We lived through those times and it probably explains why we humans are as violent as we are. Needs to be ADA compliant for readers with visual impairments. McMillion, Scott. The couple had spent parts of the three previous summers together in Alaska. His boy was horrible & the ones close seemed staged. I will never consider a competing predator at the top of the food chain my friend and I will defend my place at the very top of the food chain instantly and with deadly force. The Pioneer awoke in the middle of the night to his horses screaming in the barn. Tim had even filmed such encounters. grizzly bears. Each year, when Tim set camp within Katmai National Park, he voluntarily became a member of the food chain, and by not placing an electric fence around his camp (All bear researchers that camp in this area reportedly set up portable electric fences), by hiding his camp from park rangers in dense alder brush thickets, as well as refusing to carry bear spray (firearms are prohibited in National Parks) and by crawling and walking up close to large brown bears, often touching or attempting to touch adult bears and young cubs, showed a total disregard for his life, the life of his girlfriend Amie Huguenard, and the lives of each bear that he interacted with. I followed Tim starting in 2000 after I joined Sea Shepherd at the time. And YES, I'm LOL'ing at him,because he is absolutely worthy and deserving of ridicule. Again thank you for your contribution to the very important informational web and you ability to make it seem like reading a short novel while only following FACTUAL information. Nature is cruel. Bears are beautiful wild animals. Tim and Amie decide to stay a week later than they had ever stayed in the past, in search of a favorite bear yet unseen. Now think about the fact that up till the end of the last Ice Age, most of the world was filled with even more ferocious and massive beasts than currently exist. Anything else is foolish. I believe Tim left the tent and walked towards the bear a short distance, speaking softly to it as he had on numerous occasions, encouraging the bear to leave. Always reminding myself that the more time I spend in grizzly country increases the chances that someday, something could go wrong keeps me on my toes at all times and always expecting things to go south at any moment. He sees himself as a naturalist and loves the outdoors. Every thought, every bear, every encounter, virtually every moment of every day, so that the camera became an extension of his body, and to think that Amie somehow knew that she and Tim were going to die that night is hard to believe. If he wasnt born intellectually challenged, perhaps he was psychologically traumatized by events of his past. For 13 years, Timothy Treadwell camped in several Alaskan parks but Katmai National Park was a favorite, crawling and walking up close to bears and filming them. Soon after he arrived, he began working in restaurants while attending college on a swimming scholarship. Tim also writes in his diary that Amie believes he is hell bent on destruction and that this will be her last season in Alaska with him, leaving him for good, and that she was looking forward to starting a new job and desperate to return to California. Aimee wasnt afraid the best i can tell in the one shot she appears in i think two things she was obviously trying to stay out of tims shot and was trying not to look the bear in the eyes she was hiding her face from the bear i see aimee trying to bond and gain acceptance from tim im that shot. Just hold your arm out, far enough away that the dog will need to take a step forward to smell you, and when that happens, if some licking and/or tail wagging, then you can pet, but if barking or angry/aggressive, move your arm back to your side and move away, and never ever grab any animal around the neck, not ever, you understand that? Fall is an exceptionally risky time to be around bears of all species, as they can become aggressive in their search for additional food to build up the fat reserves needed to survive hibernation. So much in fact I was late turning on football this Sunday morning and that says ALOT. At 4:26 pm the team arrive at the lake, and ranger Ellis conducts a quick interview with Willy Fulton. And from what I read, no one has a degree in this field or even a related one. As it mauled him to death, a video camera recorded their last words, with Treadwell screaming that hes being killed out here. From their tent, Huguenard urged him to Play dead! before telling him to fight back. ~ A True Story Of Love And Death In The Wilderness ~. His presence by virtue of deliberately placing himself in harm's way in fact caused the death of a bear that would not have otherwise happened. A harrowing In-depth account of events. We had radio contact with Alaska State Troopers Hill and Jones, who were forced to park their plane 300 meters away and had to hike through the thick brush, so we elected to wait at the base of the hill until Troopers Hill and Jones could catch up. Meanwhile back in reality he was conditioning bears not to be afraid of humans in their area and in turn 4 deaths resulted. shotgun slugs that killed the bear. I agree that after his death he is to blame for the two subsequent bear's deaths but it seems that something is going on here that raises questions. (Treadwell 2001). Just recently I was given access to the first 2 minutes of the 6 minute tape. I watched him sitting on the beach It is more likely that this bear claimed the bodies from However, author Nick Jans, author of The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears had photos provided by the rangers and one was a photo of Bear 141. The remote, activated by Timothy or accidentally Another observation is the clips of him on TV. He was in a manic cycle which I think he liked and made sure to push himself into one during bear season. Trying to get up close to grizzlies represents suicidal tendencies. Gilliland 2003, pg 10). I hope that you use it! Timothy was just a depressed man with crazy thoughts and actions about wildlife. Bear 141 had a necropsy, which confirmed that Bear 141 had eaten the two humans. I am impressed with your work. inclined to believe that the first bear killed by the Park Service, I think that those two minutes (of six) are part of the real audio. My very own silence of the lamb(s) well before the film. Lastly some may say whats up with me? Timothy seemed like a very misguided man, thinking that this was his life mission, totally detached from society. By whom, I could never guess. to get himself killed. Ranger Gilliland states that he was standing at the top of the knoll about 10 feet from the mound containing Amie, looking around when he spots a large bear about 15 feet away walking up the same trail they had just hiked up, and the same trail that rangers Ellis and Dalrymple had just walked down. Please reach out for mental help. As I researched this incident, I quickly realized that Tim and I had quite a bit in common and I totally understood his passion. Ranger Ellis was standing with ranger Gilliland and Willy Fulton to his left. All he did was acclimate wild animals to human beings, putting humans and wild life in more danger. available and the call of hibernation just around the corner, and His early attempts at camping were almost comical. Van Daele, Larry. Needless to say they were pretty upset with me. Hello !I looked into a doku about a photographer from Switzerland, which has been spending a lot of time in Alasca, filming bears in this doku i heard about Tim and Amie and afterwards i wanted to know more i am thankful for your words and that you gave Amie "a place" in this story its tragic, i think she knew what was going on but we all know, what love has to do with it he has had no fear that is important to understand this ending of 2 lifes very sad and brutal but he was the only one to make choices, after regarding that special bear i am very sad about the death of Tim and Amie but i am thankful, you brought YOUR thoughts into the internet, so i can try do understand, what has happened ! Yup it was easy writing this knowing tim would want u to write what u feel. He sang to them and gave them friendly names, which Herrero, Dr. Stephen. On September 29, 2003, Tim and Amie once again are transported to Kaflia Lake by Willy Fulton, the couple wanted one more chance to be with the bears before winter set in. A second adolescent bear was also killed a short time later when it charged the park rangers. This could have very well been me. Anyway, thanks for the article! Who knows? The bear was then caught up in the cat and mouse chase that no doubt resulted around the tent, and the bears predatory instinct was triggered and Amie was killed. Herzog, Werner. If you knew Dave, my Father's email address: [emailprotected] Thanks again for your work,Brad. Tim on the other hand, had spent months each year for 13 years, five of which carrying a video camera, and literally filmed everything! (Fulton 2003), Tim sent a letter back with Willy Fulton on Amies return to Bill Sims, owner of the Newhalen Lodge near Katmai and wrote that a few bears at his camp were more aggressive than usual. He was quite sad to hear of Dave's passing - he learned of it in 2014. Not surprising the fox followed his every step. There are two sounds that have not been published that are unmistakeable and have been missing in each fake tape that I have heard. Different body parts belonging to Treadwell were found in the area surrounding their campsite. But I don't really think so, I think he was just the Average, Common Ass, Garden Variety Insanely ARROGANT, Narcissistic Human Privileged American- Dangerously Clueless, all the while THINKING He actually has a Clue, when everyone around him KNOWS he Truly does not know the difference between Shit and Shine-ola. She never should have died that way. Apparently, Tim never read the data on nighttime bear attacks. Raised in the Rockies, surrounded by all wildlife, taught at an early age, never let your guard down and they are not your friends or pets. But a man and woman doing a coordinated effort one a single microphone they are both within similar proximity to seems more likely than the woman being just as far from the camera as he is. choices must be the best for them too. If you watch documentaries on Bart, he was actually considered a brilliant "actor." I just believe it has been edited. They are not to be trusted . Hundreds of video taped encounters like this have been filmed over the years with many different bears. Ignoring and shunning the more aggressive and confrontational side of humanity and falling back on a kind of Disney perception of right and wrong. Wish she'd had a gun, in a reasonable caliber. Treadwell, Tim. Whittlesey, Lee H. 1995, Death in Yellowstone, Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park: Roberts Rinehart Publishers. After yelling Bear! It could be as simple as; Being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What a heartbreaking tragedy. There have been only a handful of fatal wolf attacks in the last 100 years in all of North America, and most of these involved rabid animals. If someone had told me back in October 2003 that I would be investigating and writing about this incident for several years, I would have laughed. as a trusting mother came by and stopped a few feet from him to play Dont mess with bears. But I can say without a doubt I share Tims passion for wildlife, outdoors & Conservation. And i cannot believe not one person has mentioned u dont store food right next to your tent no comments about his bear containers please it doesnt matter! Please leave nature alone. The salmon run was at its end, and the river that flowed through the grizzly maze contained the last remaining salmon of the year. him to be. He was no warrior. I probably would have mailed this letter and anxiously waited for your reply had I, in fact, known who to properly address this to. Individuals who have aggressively yelled at the bear, or thrown rocks or other objects to distract the bear, generally have then had time to move away to safety or, they drove the bear away with the first yell and aggressive action. The article is 5 stars!! Out of all the things this man obviously suffered from, like a full blown bipolar manic psychosis, you go to struggling with closet homosexuality? This latter scenario can not be confirmed because thankfully for us the video tape ran out before it occurred.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'yellowstone_bearman_com-mobile-leaderboard-1','ezslot_15',123,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-yellowstone_bearman_com-mobile-leaderboard-1-0'); This incident occurred due to An unconventional person with unconventional behavior toward bears, camped in the middle of a very dangerous situation.. I like how you are modest and state that you partly wrote the article to defer others from profiting from these two the couple's deaths. What he saw instead was a flattened tent and a pretty nasty looking bear hunched over a body. Thankyou for your efforts getting the story right. a 1" projectile traveling at least 1.560 feet per second would down a T-Rex at close range! As a spectator mostly from a distance, I have endeavored to offer a And sadly his girlfriend lost her life too hanging out with a fool. He tested fate 1 too many times. Then he went on to bears, a new "habit" which he didn't think would be just as deadly. I think initially he turned to heavy drugs to ease his pain w living life in the closet, and then, he turned to Wild Alaska, where he had no boundaries, labels, etc.His severe misstep was staying longer than usual that last summer. Thank you for not pursuing in publising the book, thats so human of you and tells more about what type of person you are. Much as it would have done with a salmon or other food item when approached by other bears in the area. Rarer yet, a bear who then consumes the victims. Ellis, Joel. This process I am sorry a young woman and 2 bears died from his bad thought processing but please if he was molested as I am almost sure of; please have consideration of his mental stability. Very strange things happen in the backcountry when you are least expecting it. Timothy sometimes And I should also stress, that the footage in the video is . 2004, On camera interview: Grizzly Man Movie. If tim loved nature so much why did he not live in alaska year round?seems like he needed society needs like the rest of us. I think thats what helped Treadwells LUCK, he stayed calm.I have no respect for Treadwell. When it became obvious the Why would she as far away from it as he is? The two troopers, who had arrived at this point, as well as Willy Fulton, begin yelling at the bear to get out!. I found this name early with a small description of what happened while watching some videosabout into the wild, I decided to look further into it. 8141, RF Load is a portable, self-contained general purpose 50 ohm coaxial transmission line termination requiring no outside power source or additional equipment. The older, larger bear that killed Tim and Amie had been ear tagged in 1990 after the Valdez-Alaska oil spill as part of a larger research project, and had the number 141 tattooed on the inside of its upper lip. This article really got me reading. Although I felt the opinion was a bit harsh and too "educated" where Treadwell had just been "lucky" all of these years, I believe in nature man doesn't give enough credit to our ancestral and primate tendancies akin to a child like state of being. (Liggett 2003). It is more likely that this bear claimed the bodies from a smaller, younger bear, possibly new to the area. Humans need to go into natural spaces with profound respect. Good writing of the events, if Tim would of keep a 44mag for just this kind of event he and his friend would still be here, not having a backup plan was his down fall, hope is not a plan. Ranger Ellis fires 11 times while rangers Gilliland and Dalrymple each fire 5 times, dropping the bear 12 feet away. The events are truly shocking and serves as a reminder that wildlife needs to be respected and given its space from human interaction. I often work in remote areas hence Ive had my fair share of bear encounters. I took a picture of him holding a water jug that was crushed by a bear. (Emery 2003), Emery goes on to say that Tim was camping near the coast and was nearly out of water, although a freshwater stream was nearby. Whew. Treadwell studied grizzly bears during summer seasons for 13 . That bear ate the finger that he flips off the rest of society with in his so called documentary. I wish he took the rifle which was offered to him by the guy who dropped off supplies via sea plane. Tim was a poser a phony sure not what he wanted to be but thats what he became. But what I do know, is about my own experience working in the field of criminology and psychology. Hugo MD down there in 2017 comments area gets ONE star. In his imagination he heard them respond 'I love you too, Timothy.' My horses have taught me much about the body language of animals. He was an outsider. The story has fascinated me since I learnt about Timmy's tragedy in 2003. For starters, Treadwell was an outsider, a Californian from the weird-wacky end of the scale, a guy sporting a shock of blond hair and a backward baseball cap, with the outdoors skills you'd. No where to go, no tree to climb, no police officer to call, and left screaming, running around the only barrier left between her and the bear, only to have the bear finally just go over the top and finally catch her? Of this two minutes, the final sound has been looped.(screaming). Amie may have found the adventure of traveling to Alaska romantic and exciting and may have even found spending time with a quirky guy like Tim to be entertaining and a refreshing escape from her work-a-day life in the city, no doubt filled with dangers and freaks of its own, but the truth and reality is Tim did not kill Amie. I do remember one time in late fall, my uncle taking the trash cans out to the road in the back of the truck armed with a shotgun as the bears had a food shortage and would attack trash cans. Ive been working on bears for a long time, and more and more Im convinced that most of the credit for bears and people getting along goes to the bears, said John Hechtel, a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. anxious and antagonistic, due to the reduced amount of food attack. Will never forget the red spray. Director/Producer Grizzly Man Movie. If Tim was working closely with the park service, why did he feel the need to hide his camps from them? the weather conditions, which were very poor at the time, with a lot So dont get cocky & dont be naive & think that will never happen to me. The way he curses society and material things makes one wonder malibu? I truly wish that you find an another subject to write about as your writing style and reasoning is extremely good to read. Again, I believe this older male bear had become conditioned through repetition. videotaped his approaches to these bears to show that these feared Leave them be. Tim later said he was sad that any bear would find him a threat. He mightve still alived had he stayed inside the tent when the bear was approaching, unfortunately his delusion cost the lives of 1 woman and 3 bears. summers among the Katmai bears, and how he may have finally managed Bears have instincts like humans. Interesting, well done and terrifying article. during the struggle with the bear, turned the camera on, resulting Several bear people have this theory. When one thinks of bear encounters, they generally don't think of Japan. I struggle, though, to wonder how was "Bart, the stunt bear" raised and trained by Mr. Sues(sp) able to never injure anybody who came into his beautiful path and star along side of Hollywood's A listers and be literally a 1000 pound teddy bear in real life? However, it is unknown whether bear #141 had ever gotten into or received some sort of food reward from humans. I no he hiding from PS and reason why he probably didnt.
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